Just to say that all this worked for me. I had some 100gb left free on a GPT disk with a few other systems installed and finally decided to try EFI boot, using the efi boot image from releng. I only had to create /dev entries for dk16, dk17 and dk18, 16 were not enough. I also had to disable nouveau, the geforce 950m apparently is still unsupported and I get 'no console device'. I haven't been able to get X running on this laptop, but the rest seems fine.
Chavdar On Tue, 29 May 2018, 09:34 Martin Husemann, <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:15:43AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Where do I find documentation on how to boot NetBSD amd64 or possibly > i386 in UEFI mode? > > I'm working on a wiki page (and will change the NetBSD 8.0 install docs > to point to that). > > I can't answer how to boot into alternative operating systems (haven't > tried > that yet). But the basic installation goes like this: > > - You want to boot from the uefi usb install image. This requires "secure > boot" to be disabled. Some firmwares require you to set a firmware > password before allowing to disable that > > Assuming you have a scratch disk (called wd0) you want to fully use for > NetBSD you > do something like: > > gpt destroy wd0 > gpt create wd0 > gpt add -a 2m -l "EFI system" -t efi -s 128m wd0 > gpt add -a 2m -l NetBSD -t ffs -s 118g wd0 # replace 118g as > needed > gpt add -a 2m -l swap -t swap wd0 # this will use all remaining space > dkctl wd0 listwedges > > Now note which dk* is the EFI one and newfs it (also note the ffs one > for later, see below): > > newfs_msdos /dev/rdk3 # replace dk3 with proper device > > Then make it bootable: > > mount -t msdos /dev/dk3 /mnt > mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/boot > cp /usr/mdec/*.efi /mnt/EFI/boot > umount /mnt > > I have sysinst changes that will allow the remaining part to be handled > by sysinst in NetBSD 8.0 (hope to finsih that soon). > > But for now you will have to install manually. Check the dkctl output > for which dk* is the ffs one and newfs/mount it: > > newfs -O 2 dk4 # replace dk4 by approrpiate device, see above > mount -o async /dev/dk4 /mnt > cd /mnt > > Now extract (with tar xpzf) all sets you want, including the appropriate > kernel. Also: > > cp /usr/mdec/boot . # copy secondary bootloader (XXX is this needed > for uefi)? > cd dev > sh MAKEDEV all > vi /etc/fstab > > A fstab could look like: > > NAME=NetBSD / ffs rw 1 1 > NAME=swap none swap sw,dp 0 0 > kernfs /kern kernfs rw > ptyfs /dev/pts ptyfs rw > procfs /proc procfs rw > tmpfs /var/shm tmpfs rw,-m1777,-sram%25 > > Finally set rc_configured=YES in /mnt/etc/rc.conf, plus add hostname= > and whatever settings you need. > > Now reboot, remove install usb medium, and watch NetBSD boot from uefi. > > Martin >
